"That's the way it is......"

Bishop Cole sighed helplessly, although he had come to consult with the head maid as the God of Knowledge had instructed, but he had not even seen Serena's face—she had left all her work to Edith today, and had skipped her shift to study the Magic Machine.

"It's not going to work......"

Edith frowned and sighed: "Sister Serena said, this is the bottom line that cannot be touched, if it is a library and school that you built yourself, we naturally have no reason to comment on anything, but these ...... we built"

"Miss Edith, I know that, too. With that, Bishop Cole shook his head again and sighed.

He didn't understand why the King of Knowledge would make such a request, and when he first heard it, he thought it was impossible, but since it was the request of his gods, he had to try it anyway.

Only after trying can you assure your faith that you have worked hard.

As soon as you hear this kind of unreasonable request, you know that it is impossible to be granted, but ...... Bishop Cole is a little unwilling!

Although he knew that such a request was very unreasonable, if it could be allowed, the Church of Knowledge would suddenly have many more strongholds.

This is also what he wants to fight for, even if it is vexatious, but if it is for the church, he is willing to leave this old face behind!

Bishop Cole frowned, pursed his lips, and asked in a low voice, "Miss Edith, is it really not possible? we can not preach in the school, and we can even give up a lot of benefits, although the Principality of Sorrow has developed now, there are still a lot of things missing here, isn't it......?"

"I'm really sorry, Grandpa Cole......" Edith shook her head apologetically at the elder who used to amuse her when she was a child, "This is one of the bottom lines that cannot be broken, and Sister Serena will definitely not agree." Without those things, we might have developed a little slower, but for the sake of our children and the future of this country, this is our bottom line!"

Bishop Cole knew exactly what Edith meant by 'the future of the nation'.

This is to ensure the purity of state power, and if the top of a country can be influenced by the teachings and decisions of a particular church, then the state will become almost a vassal of the church.

There used to be such nondescript things as 'church nations' on this continent, but this is also the thing that all the Orthodox churches now hate the most.

Once a church is able to influence a country, the power in their hands will be magnified, even if the clergy of the church do not want to do it at first, but when they come into contact with such a thing as 'power', slowly, lust will erode their hearts, and the greed for power will become the epitome of the church.

When the clergy would fight each other for power, would their faith still be pure?

Bishop Cole shook his head in disappointment.

The 'school' is a place where children are nurtured, and children are the future of a country, and if you preach in a school, no matter who you belong to or what church you belong to, you will be arrested and sent to prison by the police when they are discovered, and even the steps of interrogation are omitted.

Looking at the old man's decadent appearance, Edith pursed her lips and frowned and thought about it.

“...... Actually, there's another way!"

Bishop Cole heard Edith's words and raised his head, his cloudy eyes seemed to bloom, "What's the way?

"Schools can't do it, but libraries can!"

"In our principality, there can be no church school, where the faith is free, and the children are ignorant, and once they have been instilled in their childhood, they may grow up to hold on to their faith, which is not in line with our policy of 'supporting diversity of faith'," said Edith seriously. We do not allow any church to spread faith to children who have no basic judgment, and if the parents of the children are believers in a certain deity, then we have nothing to say, but it is a sin to spread faith to children!"

"Schools are not possible, but libraries can, and if Grandpa Cole and your Knowledge Church want to convert the church into a library, we can help you, and we welcome that. ”

Bishop Cole was silent when he heard this, and said nothing.

“...... I'll think about it again. ”

Bishop Cole stood up and sighed wearily.

The old bishop dragged his tired body out of the town hall, leaving Edith with a tangled back.

The old bishop seemed quite moved by her proposal just now, but the church was always a 'church,' and this kind of thing was not for him to decide.

Edith knew what she was talking about, which meant the 'secularization' of the church—like the Church of Wealth.

It is different from the secularization of the 'church' in that it only makes a church more secular and closer to the world, rather than independent of the world.

It's not a good thing to have a church rule over a country, but it's certainly a good thing to bring a church closer to the world.

Just like the bank of the Church of Wealth, the bank has several concepts such as 'storage of wealth' and 'trade', which is very suitable for the priesthood of the goddess of wealth.

Whenever someone accomplishes something in the bank of the Church of Wealth, it adds a little bit of faith to the Goddess of Wealth, because their actions are in line with the priesthood and teachings of the Goddess of Wealth.

Although the power of faith provided is not much, once it is added up, it is a very terrifying amount.

Although the Knowledge Church could not establish a school in the Principality of Sorrowful Wind, and used the school as a stronghold for their church, in other places outside the Principality of Sorrowful Wind, they were able to establish a church school, even if it was an ordinary school!

Libraries conform to the 'management of knowledge', schools conform to the 'dissemination of knowledge', and once the knowledge church completes this 'secularization', then the 'management and dissemination of knowledge' is no longer an empty concept, but a tangible existence.

After surviving the initial disappointments, the benefits of secularization are now slowly being felt.

Not only are there more believers because the teachings are clearer and closer to reality, but the divine power is also slowly increasing.

Banks have become an aspect of the priesthood of the goddess of wealth, and so can schools and libraries!

If it can be done, then the benefits of the God of Knowledge far outweigh the harms.

However, this is not something that Bishop Cole can decide alone.

He was just an ordinary local bishop, not a cardinal who ran a diocese, nor a cardinal who was directly involved in the management of the church, and he could not have made a decision on this matter directly.

In fact, he did not waver, and as a person living in the city of Wind, he could understand how good it would be for the church once these two buildings became symbols of the Church of Knowledge.

When people think of 'school' and 'library', they think of the Church of Knowledge and the God of Knowledge, just as when people mention 'bank', they immediately think of the Church of Wealth and the Goddess of Wealth.

The gods are the concrete symbols of a concept in the world, and if they are able to do this, then there is no doubt that the god of knowledge may be promoted.

Not only the Church of Knowledge and the Church of Wealth, but all other churches can be secularized, and each church can have a corresponding 'symbolic building'.

They cannot be slow to others, just as the same thing was first realized by the god they believed in, 'Ogmar', the 'King of Knowledge'.

Upon his return to the church, Bishop Cole entered the prayer room, knelt on a cushion in front of the idol, and closed his eyes.

"My lord, stupid Cole has something to report to you, and I need you to help me get an idea......"